CUFP'13 scribe's report

The Commercial Users of Functional Programming workshop (CUFP) is an annual workshop held in association with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). The aim of the CUFP workshops is to publicize the use of functional programming in commercial ventures. Its motto is “functional programming as a means, not an end.” This paper summarizes the presentation of the 2013 event, which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, continuing the tradition of the Journal to report on the presentations on a yearly basis (Sperber & Madhavapeddy, 2013; Madhavapeddy et al., 2012). It sketches the essence of each of the presentations. Curious readers may wish to peruse the recorded videos from the workshop.1 The 2013 version of CUFP present a record number of talks, a reflection of the growing popularity of functional programming. The talks also covered a wide variety of topics, ranging from implementing systems for serving advertisement in Erlang to medical device automation in Scheme.